The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States.
AKBAR GANJIRevolutions invariably don’t solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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When I talk about secularism, I’m talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.
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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.
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In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.
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Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
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It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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When I say that I am opposed to this budget, everyone says, “Well, what do you think the United States should do?” My response is, “Why should the United States do anything?”
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We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.
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There is more disgruntlement, but because there is no media, the voice of this opposition is not heard outside Iran.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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The entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it’s clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.
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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him.
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